558 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



6. AnoUs crlstatellus. 



7. Anolis jmlchellas. 



8. Am)I!s stratulux. 



9. A?ioUs velife?' (Vieques). 



10. Sphwriodactylus fnacrolejH.s (Vieques). 



11. Emyi< conclnna. 



As the record of the North American Knnj.s conclnna" is based upon 

 two 3"oung- specimens received from Mr. Riise, who had only a "well- 

 founded idea'' that they came from Porto Rico, it may be excluded 

 from the list which thus contains only ten species. 



Not long after the publication of lieinhardtaud Luetken's list, speci- 

 mens collected by Mr. Georg-e Latimer in Porto Rico were received 

 by the Smithsonian Institution, and reported on b}^ Professor Cope in 

 his kSixth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America.'' The 

 number of species sent l)y Mr. Latimer was nine, as follows: 



1. Pelta/pJiryne lemur.' 



2. GyHt'ignathnx alhilahr!s var. 



3. Ilenddactylus mahuiu. 

 1. Malmyd fulgida. 



5. Diploglossas degener. 



6. AnoHs veil far. 



7. TypldopH sp. 



8. CJdlaljothruH inornatus. 

 \). Alsophis smicticrucis. 



At least five of .hese species are additional to Reinhardt and I^uet- 

 ken's list — namel}, the first five — thus bringing the total number of 

 species definitely known from Porto Rico and Vieques in 1868 up to 

 fifteen. 



The next addition is in ISTl, when SpJutrglx corincea was added by 

 Dr. Bello y Espinosa.'' He also mentioned the occurrence of the 

 Hylodes, though without identifying it. With this addition the num- 

 ber of species l)ecame sixteen. 



A decided step forward in our knowledge of the herpetology of 

 Porto Rico was taken when Prof. W. Peters, .in 1876,'' published his 

 paper upon the collections made by the German vice-consul in Maya- 

 guez, Mr, L. Krug, and the well-known zoologist of Habana, Dr. J. 

 Gundlach, who visited the island in 1873 and again in 1875-70.'' The 

 collections, which are deposited in the Berlin Museum, embraced nine- 

 teen species of reptiles and batrachians, of which six were additions 



« One of the specimens in question seems to be now in the Hofmuseum at Vienna, 

 and is there determined as the Mexican Fneudemys ornata cataspila. 

 ''Proc. Phila. Acad., 1868, pp. 311-312. 

 <'Zool. Garten, 1871. 

 <i Monats Bericht Akad. Wiss. BerUn. 

 «' Evermann, Invest. Fish. Porto Rico, p. 3. 



